Praha....Beer me baby!

Oh Man I love Czech beer!

Some of my favorite memories from my last euro trip are in Prague drinking delicious beer with my traveling companions....then, beer was cheaper than water and we figured when in Prague....

This trip was no different and for the first time on our trip we were drinking for lunch and dinner, sometimes straight through! The insufferable heat made Budvar a must! I really love this city and am not at all surprised the A, one of the girls I was in Prague with 5 years ago has moved there. It really is an awesome awesome place. Most disappointing was that A was teaching munchkins at summer camp and we weren't able to meet up =(

Prague is one of these uniquely European cities, the buildings, churches, and castles you would just never find in the USA or AUS. It is so quaint, so charming that is it hard to remember just how fucked these people and this city has been in the last 100 years. Walking around we kept saying, it just doesn't look like the commies were ever here. And it doesn't. It looks like Cinderella's hometown, the skyline is dotted with beautiful church spires and red orange terracotta roofs. On the hour, every hour, bells ring out all over the city....amazing.

I think my favorite thing in Prague was paddle boating on the river. Not only was it the most comfortable paddle boat I have ever been in, but they sold beer on the dock where we rented it, so we grabbed a few and drank them on the river =)

Our most hillarious moment in Prague was the Sex Machine Museum. What is the sex machine museum? Well, as they say, it is an exhibit dedicated to the various inventions designed to give pleasure (or pain) throughout the centuries...yes centuries. There was of course the standard fare, but they also featured inflatable dildos (mostly for homosexual use according to the notes) and my favorite, chastity belts. I had never seen a chastity belt before and I was shocked to see that around the mandatory holes carved into it, were spikes...yikes!
we did take some pictures, that will be uploaded into a private album if you'd like to see send me an email, I believe they are the kind of pictures that could get my fb account shut down!

Praha has definitely come into its own. Sadly, it is no longer an inexpensive respite from backpacking through europe. But you know what? It doesn't really matter. It is such a truly wonderful city that it deserves to reap just as much cash from the tourist trade as the rest of the continent does. Although Mike says its off the list, I'll definitely be back!